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These very large and heavy firearms were the first to be known as the elephant guns of the black powder era (18 ...fter, they largely switched roles to tools for game wardens and as back-up firearms for professional hunters guiding international hunters.

|products= [[firearms]] ...some policies which have brought them both praise and criticism within the firearms owners' community.

...s use [[smokeless powder]], [[cordite]], or other propellants. Most modern firearms (with the notable exception of [[smoothbore]] [[shotgun]]s) have [[rifling| ...ny regulatory agencies, such as the American [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives|US BATFE]], consider any firearm which dispenses more than o

...volumes of hot solids and gases which can be used as a [[propellant]] in [[firearms]] and fireworks. ...s that approximated black powder in terms of chamber pressure when used in firearms, but had significantly reduced amounts of smoke and combustion products; th

...ttp://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/uniforms_firearms/firearms/98k/k98index.htm Firearms of the Wehrmacht - Mauser Karabiner 98]</ref> ...scopic sight body for unimpaired operation of the three-position [[safety (firearms)|safety catch lever]]. This ergonomic problem was solved by mounting the te

...,<ref>Hogg, Ian V.: ''The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Firearms'', Page 215. A&W Publishers, 1978</ref> although it remained in British ser ...an V.:Hogg, Ian V.: ''The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Firearms'', Page 215. A&W Publishers, 1978</ref> which force the operator to move hi

'''Luigi Franchi S.p.A.''' is an [[Italy|Italian]] manufacturer of [[firearm]]s, most notably various [[shotgun]]s. * [[List of Italian submachine guns]]

...s hard to draw, the term submachine gun usually refers to larger automatic firearms. Typically, a submachine gun's operating mechanism is scaled down from that ...burst of three shots instead of a full-automatic stream. In the 1970s, the Italian [[Beretta]] company developed the Beretta Model 93R, a selective-fire machi

... the first major military contract; an order for 5,000 C96 pistols for the Italian navy.<ref>Skennerton (2005), p.8</ref> The Mauser C96 pistol was also extre ===1899 Italian Navy Mauser===

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...rel length. The sawed-off shotgun is sometimes known as a "[[Lupara]]" (in Italian a generic reference to the word "Lupo" ("Wolf")) in Southern [[Italy]] and Since early firearms, such as the [[blunderbuss]], [[arquebus]] and [[musket]] tended to have la

...ting Arms Company, best known at the time as manufacturers of lever-action firearms such as the [[Winchester Rifle|Winchester model 1873]]. Designer [[John Bro ...earm companies have successfully produced viable models for the commercial firearms market:

...s, and as such the Winchester name has become synonymous with lever-action firearms. The gun is colloquially known as '''"The Gun that Won the West"''', thoug ...r in the case rim, thus creating one of the most significant inventions in firearms history, the metallic [[rimfire]] cartridge.<ref>Smith's cartridge was deri

...ce of the bullet on target, especially the first-shot kill rate when using firearms that don't achieve the velocity to cause fragmentation.<ref name=woundingin ... United States civil standards organization [[Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute|SAAMI]]. The piezoelectric sensors or transducers NATO and SAAMI

...he development of countless many other types of individual and crew-served firearms. It was one of the first true assault rifles and, due to its durability and ...) was not the first with these features; its predecessors were the [[Italy|Italian]] [[Cei-Rigotti]] and the [[Imperial Russia|Russia]]n [[Fedorov Avtomat]] d

... Fairchild in 1954, specifically to bring new materials and designs to the firearms industry. Later that year they were joined by [[Eugene Stoner]], a talented ...e for the AR-10 to a Dutch arms manufacturer Artillerie Inrichtingen (AI). Firearms historians have separated AR-10 production under the AI license into at lea

...anslation “assault rifle” gradually became the common term for similar firearms sharing the same technical definition as the name giver StG 44. In a strict ...to the close range engagement of modern warfare. Military leaders and arms manufacturers thus began grasping for a new type of weapon for this new era.

During the First World War the firm supplied the French Army and Italian Army with an estimated 150,000 [[Ruby pistol]]s, first produced in 1911 in ...stra Arms S.A. company registration</ref> According to sources gathered by Italian gun magazines at the 2008 EXA arms expo (Brescia, Italy, April 12-15, 2008)

...ry] at the official website</ref> The bills of sale for the order of those firearms are in the firm's archives. ...lian army fielded. Beretta manufactured [[rifle]]s and [[pistol]]s for the Italian military until the 1943 Armistice between Italy and the Allied forces durin

==C-68 FIREARMS CONTROL DESIGN FAILURES== ...nability to write legislation that would create an integrated and workable firearms control system, which is a difficult thing to do. They apparently did not